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Intellectual Ventures' Patent Protection Racket
David Gerard writes "Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over patents, because that would be patent trolling! No, instead they just threaten to sell the patent to a known litigious patent troll. So that's all right then. Timothy Lee details how using patents to crush profitable innovation works in practice, and concludes: 'In thinking about how to reform the patent system, a good yardstick would be to look for policy changes that would tend to put Myhrvold and his firm out of business.'"
Ah, I'm sorry kdawson. Apologies to you as well, David. I wouldn't blame you for your tone, however.
I should have remembered that aspect of the Slashdot system.
yeh, money may not but happiness, but it buys a reasonable fascimilie.
Maybe if you backed up your contrarian attitude with an argument, people would listen to you.
I've posted in this discussion so I can't mod you up. But I would if I could...
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
... and I doubt I'm alone.
...I do sometimes need people to tell me if my dress makes me look fat, but I think that is a different story entirely.
I don't doubt that you are alone....
Atheist: Buddhist in a Prius
And yet, all you do, it just talk too&... ^^ :/)
(And so do I
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.